TL; DR: Does anyone know of a workaround that allows export of character sheet data to a third-party app that can produce a higher-quality PDF than the one accessible through D&D Beyond?
Details: I've been playing a campaign for about 10 weeks and printing out physical character sheets for my players each session. Although I understand that there is a caching requirement that means waiting 20 minutes for physical copies to reflect changes, I have had at least three separate instances in different characters in my campaign where I have updated sheets, waited half an hour, and changes aren't reflected.
I further understand that the response from feedback about this issue has been, "working as intended, we're not going to change anything." That's fine. My real question is about the quality of the printed character sheet itself, which is poor. Most of the time the text can't even track onto fields provided in the sheet, the layout is strange and confusing for my players, the font sizes and kerning are all inconsistent. Generally speaking it is a significantly lower quality experience than playing online in virtually every way.
While I am certain the developer response to this will be, "well just play online," (and that's fine too) I would like to work around this by simply capturing the HTML and exporting it another PDF creation or document creation solution rather than D&D Beyond's. I have no expectations that posting this issue will result in it being addressed in any way, and I do not wish to verbally fence with a moderator or D&DB loyalist about development priorities.
So, simple question: has anyone tried to do this or can anyone recommend a third-party app that can do so? Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
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TL; DR: Does anyone know of a workaround that allows export of character sheet data to a third-party app that can produce a higher-quality PDF than the one accessible through D&D Beyond?
Details: I've been playing a campaign for about 10 weeks and printing out physical character sheets for my players each session. Although I understand that there is a caching requirement that means waiting 20 minutes for physical copies to reflect changes, I have had at least three separate instances in different characters in my campaign where I have updated sheets, waited half an hour, and changes aren't reflected.
I further understand that the response from feedback about this issue has been, "working as intended, we're not going to change anything." That's fine. My real question is about the quality of the printed character sheet itself, which is poor. Most of the time the text can't even track onto fields provided in the sheet, the layout is strange and confusing for my players, the font sizes and kerning are all inconsistent. Generally speaking it is a significantly lower quality experience than playing online in virtually every way.
While I am certain the developer response to this will be, "well just play online," (and that's fine too) I would like to work around this by simply capturing the HTML and exporting it another PDF creation or document creation solution rather than D&D Beyond's. I have no expectations that posting this issue will result in it being addressed in any way, and I do not wish to verbally fence with a moderator or D&DB loyalist about development priorities.
So, simple question: has anyone tried to do this or can anyone recommend a third-party app that can do so? Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.